College Carnage 2007: Students In Peril or Scaremongering?

Now that the 2007/2008 academic school year is underway in the wake of the Virginia Tech Massacre, it seems like you can't stub your toe on campus without some breathless AP report detailing the incident.
Let's get something straight. People get shot, stabbed, run over, mauled, maimed, raped, massacred and beheaded on college campuses all the time. It's not news.
We need some type of minimum qualifications for college carnage to make the news. I say: one death for local news, three deaths for national. Everything else is just reporters chasing the next Cho. And more scaremongering.
This point goes double for animal cruelty stories in the wake of the Vick scandal. -David Downs